I recently got an Acer Aspire 5050-3785 laptop with an 80GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, AMD-64 processor, and it came with Vista Home Premium (yuck). So I reinstalled Vista to a smaller partition in order to dualboot it with Linux.
I had the LiveCDs for Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora 7 with me. The Fedora 7 LiveCD wouldn't boot up. It would get to the splash screen with the option to run from image, run from RAM, and verify and run from image. Regardless of what I choose, it prints out a bunch of text that ends with
However, Ubuntu was able to boot from the LiveCD just fine, and I then installed it to the hard drive. After failing to get the wireless to work in Ubuntu, I decided to try Fedora again.
Assuming that maybe the Fedora 7 LiveCD was corrupt somehow, I downloaded a fresh new copy and burned it to a new CD, and I get the same thing.
So, next I got out the old Fedora Core 6 CDs and tried to install from that. It ends up printing out a bunch of text that ends with:
And then it just hangs there and doesn't continue any further. I'm fairly certain that the FC6 CDs aren't to blame here, because I've successfully installed FC6 on my desktop PC a number of times before and had kept the CDs safe since then.
But, to try everything short of downloading all five FC6 CDs again and burning up more CDs, I tried the Fedora Core 5 CDs that I got from college. It had the same result as FC6.
Has anybody experienced anything like this before? Is there something with the Fedora core that all these versions share that might be to blame for this? Ubuntu booted up just fine, but Ubuntu is based on Debian which is a different branch than the one that Fedora came from, so could that be the problem?
I'll keep messing with it in the meantime. If anybody has any tips to post, thanks in advance.
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I had the LiveCDs for Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora 7 with me. The Fedora 7 LiveCD wouldn't boot up. It would get to the splash screen with the option to run from image, run from RAM, and verify and run from image. Regardless of what I choose, it prints out a bunch of text that ends with
Code:
[<c0404e46>] ret_from_form+0x6/0x1c
[<c071b45c>] init+0x0/0x2ce
[<c071b45c>] init+0x0/0x2ce
[<c0405b3f>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
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Code: c3 56 53 89 c3 83 ec 10 8b 41 04 39 [...]
EIP: [<c04e85c3>] __list_add+0x2a/0x5c SS:ESP 0068:dfb81b04
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!However, Ubuntu was able to boot from the LiveCD just fine, and I then installed it to the hard drive. After failing to get the wireless to work in Ubuntu, I decided to try Fedora again.
Assuming that maybe the Fedora 7 LiveCD was corrupt somehow, I downloaded a fresh new copy and burned it to a new CD, and I get the same thing.
So, next I got out the old Fedora Core 6 CDs and tried to install from that. It ends up printing out a bunch of text that ends with:
Code:
[<c0403f06>] ret_from_form+0x6/0x20
[<c04002fc>] init+0x0/0x36a
[<c04002fc>] init+0x0/0x36a
[<c0405447>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
=======================And then it just hangs there and doesn't continue any further. I'm fairly certain that the FC6 CDs aren't to blame here, because I've successfully installed FC6 on my desktop PC a number of times before and had kept the CDs safe since then.
But, to try everything short of downloading all five FC6 CDs again and burning up more CDs, I tried the Fedora Core 5 CDs that I got from college. It had the same result as FC6.
Has anybody experienced anything like this before? Is there something with the Fedora core that all these versions share that might be to blame for this? Ubuntu booted up just fine, but Ubuntu is based on Debian which is a different branch than the one that Fedora came from, so could that be the problem?
I'll keep messing with it in the meantime. If anybody has any tips to post, thanks in advance.
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Cuvou.com | My personal homepage
Project Fearless | My web blog